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Question by : Do you believe in free will or not, and how does this view affect your view on morality?
Please tell me your view. I’ll tell you my view in the following paragraphs, so feel free to ignore this if you’re not interested in knowing:

I’m personally a physicalist, viewing the world as entirely made up of matter and nothing else. Arguing from the experience that the world acts in a strict cause and effect-manner, I assume this law of causality cannot still be neglected from being applied on humans, as we are all – entirely physically – part of this world. In this sense, our free will cannot be anything but illusional, as electrical impulses in our nervous system and our 100-500 trillion synapses in our brains act according to the laws of physics and causuality; and if we had the ability to keep track of each and everyone of these impulses, then we could predict how a person would act, meaning they had no genuine ”free will” to begin with.

Having dismissed the idea of free will, I consequently dismiss the idea that people have a responsibility for their own actions. This might cause people to object that people may feel like they can do whatever they want, but I’m not opposing the idea that something needs to be done with those who transgresses the rules in society; my stance is however not punishment (who can be punished if they didn’t have the free will to commit the act to begin with?) but rather that rehabilitation is necessary as a means to turn criminals into productive members of society.

People would still pursue happiness as they do today even if they did not believe in free will, as their lives would be no different than before, but hopefully with a little more respect towards each other now that they realize that there is nothing more than a list of predetermined factors which determines a person’s personality and behaviour.
Alpha Shen:

I agree fully with you. I say there are four broad factors that shape humans throughout their entire life: genetics, experience and the cultural and social environment.

Best answer:

Answer by Yam King 7
They both seem to be true.
I can use my free will to decide I’m gonna do 300 push-ups per day, and I can make that happen, but there also seems to be a destined agenda for me that I don’t consciously ask for.
Maybe I’m just not getting my way when that happens.
For example, maybe I want to be a teacher, but when I try to teach, kids misbehave. It forces me to learn how to discipline them. The problem happens when, in trying to discipline them, I find it doesn’t comes easy and is in fact difficult. To become able to discipline a class to be respectful, I have to change. So, it might have been my free will that chose to teach, but my destiny was to learn how to discipline and carry myself like a man.
good question.

Answer by Fred F
My free willed mind could not reason out your view.

The “Golden Rule” supersedes “Free Will”, in my way of thinking.

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